Saturday, 11 April 2009

Doctor Who: Series 4 Guide

Series Four Guide

Partners In Crime: Donna Noble is investigating some strange goings on with the mysterious and powerful businesswoman Miss Foster and her diet pill company. The Doctor and Donna are investigating the same thing but continually miss each other. But why does Miss Foster have her own sonic pen? A comedy episode. And who is that strangely familiar blonde person who appears for a few seconds at the end of the episode then fades away? 

The Fires Of Pompeii: What has ancient Rome got to do with anything? A quick trip to Pompei with only hours before Mount Vesuvius is about to explode. Donna wants to save a family but the Doctor doesn't. And how did Donna end up as a sacrifice? Rock monsters everywhere. Russell says that the monsters in this episode are the most ambitious to date. A dark depressing episode. 

Planet Of The Ood: A trip to the 42nd century to the Ood's home planet. We find they're really slaves. The Doctor has to find a way to free them, but the Ood have had their own plans for 200 years. We find out what really happened to them to have caused them want to serve.

The Sontaran Experiment PT1&2: Martha contacts the Doctor on her mobile phone while working at UNIT. (Bring back the Brigadier!) and asks him to help fight a Sontaran invasion, before being captured by the Sontarans. (Bring Back The Brigadier!) The Sontarans activate their atmosphere changing device and increase global warming dramatically. UNIT can't do anything about it and the Doctor has to make a sacrifice. 

The Doctor's Daughter: The Doctor, Donna and Martha are dragged to a planet and within seconds of arriving the Doctor's DNA is sampled and a genetically modified, bred for war, 25 year old woman is instantly created from it. Donna promptly names her Jenny and helps the Doctor come to terms with the fact that he has a new daughter. Jenny is needed to help the Humans fight the Hath, a fight that has been going on for generations. 
Martha is separated from the group and help the Hath in her own way. 

The Unicorn And The Wasp: The Doctor, with his plucky young gal Donna, visit an estate where several high class personages have been invited for tea. They meet Agatha Christie, played by Fenella Woolgar, and the Doctor quickly learns that this is the date that Agatha went missing for 10 days and no one knows what happened. Suddenly Mr Peach is found dead in the library with a piece of lead piping. As the body count mounts the Doctor and Agatha must find the clues to lead them to the killer. And what has a giant wasp got to do with it? 

Silence In The Libary PT1&2: The Doctor and Donna land on a library planet in the 51st century that had been abandoned 100 years ago. The library contains trillions of books. The Doctor and Donna encounter dead bodies, data ghosts, the Suit Creature, Vashta Nerada (piranhas of the air – shadows that melt the flesh) and archaeologist Professor River Song played by Alex Kingston. At the end of part 1 Donna is separated from the Doctor and finds herself in a mysterious hospital administered by Doctor Moon.  

Midnight: The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth – but as paranoia turns into a witch-hunt, Sky turns the Doctor's greatest strengths against him, and a sacrifice must be made! 

Turn Left: Turn Left is the Doctor-lite episode as Midnight was the Donna-lite episode. 
With a time bug on Donna's back, she gets to see an alternate reality where the Doctor has died and worlds fall apart. Donna and Rose work together to bring back the Doctor's universe, but Rose has a message for the Doctor. 

The Stolen Earth & Journey's End: The Doctor and Donna go to the TARDIS doors to see that the entire Earth has been ripped from underneath them. Someone's stolen the Earth! (Again? Didn't this happen in Trial of a Timelord Episodes 1 to 4 when the Timelords moved the Earth?) Davros and his new Daleks have stolen planets from space and time and put them in their own alternative space (D-Space?) in the Medusa Cascade to create an engine capable of dissolving all matter in all universes. The Doctor's Army must band together to save reality. Penelope Wilton returns as Harriet Jones Ex Prime Minister and helps Torchwood, Sarah Jane Smith and Martha band together to contact the Doctor and Donna. Features Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack, Martha Jones as well as Donna and the Doctor. Gwen and Ianto from Torchwood and K9 from the Sarah Jane Adventures also make a brief appearance. It also features the Judoon and the Shadow Proclamation as well as Davros played by Julian Bleach, and millions of Daleks! Caan timeshifted into the Time Locked Time War and rescued Davros just before he was destroyed. The journey sent Caan insane so he has remain chained up. He can see the future and predicts the arrival of the Doctor and the death of a companion. Davros used his own Kaled cells to create a race of new Daleks. Millions of them.In Part 2 the Doctor regenerates retaining his current incarnation while sending his regeneration energy into his severed hand. With the help of Donna the hand regenerates into a half human Doctor and they, and the children of time, help to defeat the Daleks. 

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